Monstrous bass!

Alotta scumbags on here man. And the real kicker is, people like you and me will get punished for calling them out long before they get punished for being racists. I gave up a long time ago.

Big fish, not 14, but big

They gentlemen who was telling me about it said they caught sand bass and bloodied them up so i think they were catfishing.

I caught two little LMBs from the bank last week one early evening in about an hour of fishing.

TPWD mentions the dam and its rip rap as a good spot but I have never had any luck there though I certainly haven't worn it out. My catches from the bank have been down by the ski area where I can park and just walk down and cast.

I think I'll take the canoe out on a low wind early evening and motor over to the north and check out the other areas. So far, I have always stayed under the dam where the wind whistles overhead but the water is calm under it. Nice and wind-protected there, but the need to find fish trumps that.

*** The large fish "participating" in the sharelunker program were stocked in 2006 and these fish are tagged to monitor their growth rates. In a recent survey, I saw no mention of any statistics as to what is going on with them, whether they even brought some up to measure, that they have in fact survived. But, in general, the other LMBs in Marine Creek have experienced low growth rates.

I still think the issue is largely a paucity of bait fish for them to feed on.

I did finally see some bait fish cruising along the banks the last time out and that was actually a first for me.

Brad

Pretty sure that illegal. Using a game fish for bait

If that's how they caught it, that is definitely illegal.

Absolutely gorgeous fish. Look at that big ol' eyeball.